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 64 BUCKINGHAM. Dukedom, n. 1 1460, 2. Henry (Stafford), Duke of Bucking- Earldom, VII. j. o TIAM, &c. grandson ami h., being only s. and h. of Hum- pbrey Stafford, stifled Earl of Stafford, by Margaret bis wife 1483. abovenarned, it, 1454 ; KB., 3 May 1465; KG., 1474. Having been of great service in securing the accession of Richard III. he received numerous grants of most impor- tant offices from him and was, 15 July 1483, acknowledged as (hereditary) Lord Hicir Constable, (») His fidelity, however, to that King lusted but a few mouths, and, joining in the plot to place the Earl of Richmond on the throne, he was beheaded (without any legal ti-ial) at Salisbury, in Nov. following, and attainted. He in. Katharine (sister to Elizabeth, Queen Consort ok Edward IV.), da. of Richard (Wnmrjs), Karl Rivers, by Jacqueline of LvxsMBOtmoS, da. of Peter, Comtk de St. For, and Brienne. He d. as afsd., 2 Nov. 1483. His widow m. before Nov. H8. r ), Jasper (Tudor), Duke op Bedford, who (/. s.p. leg. 21 Dec. 1495. She m. for her 3d husband (being his 1st wife), Sir Richard WOHOUL K.G., who d. 22 July 1525. Dukedom nr. l I486, J. Edward (Stafford), Duke op Bucki.yg- I. uam (1444), Earl of Stafford (l351), Earl of Buckish- Earldom > IO HAMj (1.377?) and Lord Stafford (1298) also Count nf 1521. Perehe in Normandy, s. and h. 4. 3 Feb. 147S. KB. (aa VI 11, J Duke of Buckingham) 29 Oct. 1485, tho' not formally re stored to his honours till 14 SG. KG.1195. InJuue 1509 he was recognised as (hereditary) Lord Hiuh Constable and was appointed Lord High Steward of England and Bearer of the Crown at the Coronation of Henry VIII. P.O., 1509. In right of his representation of Thomas, Duke of Gloucester and Earl of Buckingham abovenamed (the 6th and yst. s. of Edward III) ho appears to have entertained some notions of his possible right to the Crown, and having in- curred the enmity of Cardinal Wolsey, the Prime Minister, was accused and found guilty of high treason ( b ) and executed on Tower Hill, 17 May 1521 and was bur. at the Austins Friars, London,( c ) a bill of attainder following when all hit honour! became forfeited.^) He m. Eleanor, da. of Henry (Percy), 4th Earl of Northumber- land by Maud, da. of William (Herbert), Earl of Pembroke. She d. 13 Feb. 1530 and was bur. in Greyfriars, London. Will dat. 24 June 1528, directing her heart to be bur. there aud her body at Greyfriars, Bristol. ( a ) By royal letters, two days previously, he had been acknowledged as "a cosyn ami heir of blood to Humphrey Bohun, Earl of Hereford " and had grant of such lands of that Earl as had come into the bands of the Crown by the marriage of Lady Mary Bohun, one of the two daughters and coheirs of the said Earl, with Henry IV. To that King the hereditary office of " Constable," had been allotted and the lands, chiefly in Essex, (See '• Dugflale " vol i. p. I(i9), of the Earldom of Essex. The other da. (whose issue alone was, after 1471, remaining) in. Thomas (Plantagenet), Duke of Gloucester and Earl of Buckingham abovenamed, of whom this Duke was the great great grand- son aud representative. ( b ) See Shakespeare's "Henry VIII" for a vivid account of these proceedings Note that in the Duke's speech therein he calls himself " Bohun " being the name o( his maternal ancestress (see ante note "a") i.e. " When I came hither I was Lord High Constable, And Duke of Buckingham ; now pour Edward Bohun " There is a strange entry among the burials of St. Botolph's Bishopgate, viz. 1C0S, April 9. " The Lady Marye Bohun alias Staffordc, buried out of Bethlehem House, [i.e. Bedlam lunatic-asylum), aged 140." ( c ) The fate of his race was singularly tragic. Both he aud his Father were be- headed, while his Grand Father, Great Grand-Father and Great Great Grand-Father (Edmund, Earl of Stafford, 1395-1408) were all slain in the wain of the lioses. ( d ) He was degraded from the order of the Garter. In " N. and Q." 7th S. II, 1 37 is the following statement, signed "John Alt Porter," viz "By careful research I have found the full list of those Knights of the Garter who have suffered degradation to be as follows :— 1. Thomas Beauehamp, Earl of Warwick, 1397 (?). 2. Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland. 1406-7 (?). 3. Jasper Tudor, Earl of Pembroke, 1461. 4. Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, 1468 (?).